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hello all the dun wurkun van is no longer on the road as it has been sold, but don't fret as a new one will be replacing it soon if there are members on the forum wanting to take the name, beware as it is mine Ken

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Hello all - good on all Australians for their help for Alex McKinnon. I was greatly moved at the beginning of the Knights/Titans game today - it goes to show Australia looks after their own. Good on the Rugby League clubs and supporters and anyone else that was involved in this weekend and at other tim...

Gday... 1858 - Adelaide and Melbourne are linked by the first inter-colonial electric telegraph line. Canadian-born Samuel Walker McGowan is credited with bringing the telegraph technology to Australia. Lured by the opportunities opened up by the discovery of gold in Victoria, M...

We left Melbourne on Wednesday heading north to escape the cold, first day we stopped at a free camp in Culcairn, we were happy the rig had performed well, and our battery was full after a mainly overcast day.We sort of brushed over the fact that the rest stop we camped in was close to the highway, well it c...

Dear Boss, I backed the front end loader up and broke the tail light/ reversing light. You will see the bolt that holds the rear light on has been broken and I may have also broken the globe, although the wire for the light assembly seems to be intact, so that's a plus. I don't think it will cost very much...

Greetings, Nomads, Salutations all you Baby Boomers, I have been reading a lot of Chatter on the forum, about the people who loves the colder weather , and who do the Northern Migration, I have been in deep Meditation on why some people love the cold ,!!And!!, why some like the comfort of the warmer weat...

The Business DealA Chinese guy goes into a Jewish-owned establishment to buy black bras, size 38. The Jewish store keeper, known for his skills as a businessman, says that black bras are rare and that he is finding it very difficult to buy them from his suppliers. Therefore he has to charge $50.00 for t...

Was had with Dunmowin yesterday. Thanks guys for having us at your place. JC.

came through bulahdelah north of newcastle nsw seen about 10 vans parked beside river about 600meters from the town this town was bypassed with motorway, went to the IGA store and the lady said the vanners helped keep the town going butcher,baker coffee shop etc suenray

hi guys we are going on a long trip and we were wondering if you can carry extra gas bottle we have provision for 2 in our front boot but would maybe need an extra is this illegal

I know I recently commented on my stay in hospital during this past week very light heartedly in "I digress". But unfortunately this problem I have - temporal arteritis (inflammation of the temporal artery) is causing me grave problems - mainly my eye sight in my left eye. This is very bl...

MY mate Dougwe makes page 2 news in the GN Times I agree with the young lady, you should have given ladders away 15 years ago -- Edited by _wombat_ on Friday 18th of July 2014 07:16:31 PM

Thanks to Justcruisin - Jim and Leonie - for coming out to visit us at Humpty Doo. We had afternoon tea, and sat in our temporary rain forest! Hope they had a safe departure from Darwin this morning. Good to meet some more forumites.

We have a Dometic roof mount air con model CAL136.312 (product number 991650423) that is spitting out what I can only describe as a very, very fine white granulated particles. There is no evidence that I can see of residual material in the unit from inside the van. We are away at the moment in a very hot c...

Just a quick question, has anybody had a towball fracture? Does anybody replace the ball after a number of K's or laps? The question came up the other night at a BBQ and nobody had really thought about it. The towball cops a fair bit stress and would be one of the cheaper parts of the tow setup. Hendo

Hi all our caravan which we have called Cyril is finally ready and we are heading off. We only have a month this time. So we thought we would head to Broken Hill, make our way across NSW and down to Canberra then home. we will have our 10 year old Jack Russell Muss India Jane Claudette travelling with us. Can...

Just inquiring if any Grey Nomads have stayed at the above CAW6=87. What is it like? It says Self Contained and limited sites available. It's about 100kl sth of Mackay. Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone, well this is the rig I built last year after deciding I needed something to do between hospital visits as it wasn't safe health wise to go back to Thailand where I'd been living for a while. It was a pretty quick decision, sort of thought about it for a couple of days then next thing I know ther...

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